conosna

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ uss- +‎ anaid (“to stay”).

Verb

con·osna (prototonic ·cumsana, verbal noun cumsanad)

to cease, stop, end
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 80^d5
  ní cumsanfa ― glossing Latin non desistet (“will not stop”)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 206^a3
  Air cheso i n-.us. con·osna són, ní i n-.um. do·gní a neutur.
  Although [Latin alius] ends in -us, it does not make its neuter [i.e. aliud] with -um.

Inflection

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			con·osna			con·osnat
Present indicative	Prot.			·cumsana

Imperfect indicative	Deut.
Imperfect indicative	Prot.

Preterite	Deut.
Preterite	Prot.	·cumsanus		·cumsan

Perfect	Deut.			con·rosan
Perfect	Prot.

Future	Deut.
Future	Prot.			·cumsanfa

Conditional	Deut.
Conditional	Prot.

Present subjunctive	Deut.		con·osnai
Present subjunctive	Prot.

Past subjunctive	Deut.			con·osnaitis
Past subjunctive	Prot.

Imperative

Verbal noun		cumsanad
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
con·osna	unchanged	con·n-osna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “con-osna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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